Up-and-coming EV maker Rivian closed on a monumental land agreement last week for 1,800 acres to host its new mega site in Georgia. Construction can now begin on Rivian’s $5 billion facility, where its next-gen R2 electric vehicles will be made. The Joint Development Authority (JDA) of Jasper, Morgan, Newton, and Walton Counties approved several […]
California-based Carrum Health, a digital marketplace allowing employers to purchase bundled healthcare services, announced in September that it joined the White House-led Cancer Moonshot CancerX initiative, uniting with cross-disciplinary stakeholders to drive innovation in cancer care. Deirdre Saulet, Carrum’s market vice president for oncology, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the employer-focused specialty care platform’s […]
My Brooklyn apartment is designed for sterility. The windows have screens to keep out bugs; I chose my indoor plants specifically because they don’t attract pests. While commuting to other, similarly aseptic indoor spaces—co-working offices, movie theaters, friends’ apartments—I’ll skirt around pigeons, avert my eyes from a gnarly rat, shudder at the odd scuttling cockroach. […]
Joby Aviation – one of the leading eVTOL developers right now, has taken to the skies of New York City for the first time ever, teasing a not-so-distance future in which it intends to begin commercial air taxi operations in the urban area and beyond. Getting to the airport may just get a lot easier… […]
China’s leading EV maker, BYD, is teasing a new electric SUV as part of its Ocean series. The BYD Sea Lion 07’s design was led by ex-Audi and Lamborghini chief designer Wolfgang Egger. BYD continues its dominant expansion. After selling a record 151,193 all-electric vehicles in September, BYD came within a few thousand models of […]
KYMCO, one of the world’s leading motorcycle, scooter, and ATV manufacturers, has just announced a major new expansion to the brand’s Ionex platform for swappable battery electric vehicles. We’ve watched over the years as KYMCO has expanded its Ionex system, pushing out thousands of battery swap kiosks around its domestic market in Taiwan and producing […]
Autonomous EV freight developer Einride announced another key milestone today, deploying full-time, commercial operations with longtime partner, GE Appliances. The autonomous trucks are navigating between GE’s manufacturing facility and warehouse, demonstrating a case for scaled commercialization in the electric freight industry. Today’s milestone is another notable achievement for a relatively young company like Einride, which […]
A team of UK student engineers are celebrating after winning an international competition to design an artificial heart. The University of Bath’s Team Bath Heart took top prize at the grand final of the first-ever Heart Hackathon, which was held in Texas at the end of October. Six members of the team presented their device […]
Tesla started listing new cars through a third-party platform, cars.com, and CEO Elon Musk didn’t even know about it. One of the main things that separates Tesla from other automakers is the fact that it sells directly to consumers. In the US, all legacy automakers go through third-party franchise dealerships for sale and service. Tesla […]
According to reporting from the Financial Times, Tesla and India’s long courtship ritual could finally be making real progress. Negotiations appear to be on a path that would make it possible for Tesla to sell its existing cars in the country while it works on plans for a local manufacturing facility. According to the report, […]
